A young woman searches for her fiancé following his presumed death during World War I.

ABSTRACTMathilde, an attractive young French woman hampered by a bad leg as a consequence of a childhood bout with polio, lives with her aunt, uncle, and fiancé Manech in a rural village. Manech, a soldier fighting with the war effort near the German front, is accused of purposely injuring himself alongside four comrades at the Battle of the Somme; his resulting death sentence stirs Mathilde into action when she receives word of his apparent demise, embarking on a relentless quest to find her true love borne out of an unwavering belief that he is still alive.

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